Rahul Gandhi

An assault in Parliament

Rajeev Deshpande

A tale of how a push became a shove

Missed Call

Internal drift and worn-out themes have shrunk Congress and kept the party from capitalising on the Lok Sabha results while a defining idea to counter BJP still eludes the Opposition

Buffer Story

Open

The buffer zones, which involved a pullback from specific friction points on the Line of Actual Control (LAC) by Indian and Chinese troops, remain but patrolling has been restored to full extent

Little I.N.D.I.A.

Rahul Shivshankar

Has Congress become a liability for the Opposition alliance?

Wayanad National Congress

MJ Akbar

If Congress leaders had to resign after defeat, Rahul Gandhi would have gone from his post after a calamitous 2014 and left politics after 2019

Modi at Full Throttle

Rajeev Deshpande

The Maharashtra result marks a watershed for the state and bolsters the Modi government, validating its ideological agenda even as Jharkhand hails the rise of Hemant Soren